Maintaining baselines
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Hello
Just a quick Question regarding baselining my project.
When I schedule my project and then I baseline it with that data date.
If I then update the project plan and schedule it with a new data date and baseline it again is it possible to go back to the previous baseline to see the original plan instead of clicking on Undo if things don't go correct after I schedule & resource level.
Thanks
Rhys
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Oldest first- 0Simon Willson ·
Hi Rhys, If you are wanting
Hi Rhys,
If you are wanting to keep an archive of baselines, I would take the following action.
- Base line your schedule.
- Perform your updates as required.
- At the time you need to update your baseline (i.e. as a result of approved change control or directed by senior stakeholders), remove the baseline from the current schedule.
- Make a copy of the baseline and call it something like Baseline 1 (or what ever serial is appropriate). Up rev / issue the copy and call it Baseline 2.
- Update baseline 2 to reflect the required change.
- Schedule baseline 2 with the appropriate datadate. Remember, if you are going to progress the data date and activities have started, you will have to update progress in the baseline copy accordingly.
- Reattach both baselines to the master schedule, baseline 2 will be the project baseline, baseline 1 as a user baseline.
You can now compare one against the other. If the changes are appropriate you can keep baseline 2 but if things aren't right, you still have the option of going back to the original baseline.
Hope this helps.
Simon
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